Example sentences of "to be [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In her haste to be gone she stuffed Dotty Blundell 's brassière into the pocket of her overalls . |
| 2 | and the whole band saw got ta to be resharpened he said and they go to a place in |
| 3 | At last finding someone to move so their love did n't have to be separated they started to do things which the middle-aged woman in the tweed suit would not have approved of , luckily for her she had dismounted earlier . |
| 4 | During this time , many offerings were made to MAIA , the goddess of the dead , to assuage her , and a constant din of drumming was to be heard which frightened off her attendant GHOSTS . |
| 5 | He began to descend , and in confidence that he was now too far from Parfois to be heard he abandoned his caution and swung his way down the cliff with frantic haste . |
| 6 | First of all , Marx 's theory of historical materialism was one of the very first theories of society and change to be formulated which provided a historical overview and , at the same time , attempted to mesh together the workings of social , economic and political phenomena . |
| 7 | Without waiting to be invited he sat down beside her and crossed his legs , the trousers riding up almost to his calf . |
| 8 | Her mother never knew this , though , and because she had agreed to accept that the words ‘ action stations ’ meant that there was an urgent and valid reason for the conversation to be terminated she felt no sense of rejection . |
| 9 | Ramprakash has long been known to have a short fuse but after a year in the England set-up , it was to be hoped he had matured . |
| 10 | If keyboarding of the two texts could not be run in parallel , some other arrangement would have to be adopted which allowed the overlapping of phases . |
| 11 | Defoe considered it to be manufacturing which conferred this " blessing " on a vicinity . |
| 12 | There is no spider to be seen it had of course retreated to the darkest corner it could find again . |
| 13 | Denega , of Walnut Road , Torquay , was jailed for four months after admitting causing work to be done which resulted in changing or demolishing a listed building . |
| 14 | James Stephens [ q.v. ] wrote that ‘ when something had to be done he did it , and entirely disregarded logic or economics or force . ’ |
| 15 | When the conversation deserved to be punctuated she threw back her head and gave a perfectly proportioned peal of carefully modulated laughter . |
| 16 | A formula would have to be developed which took account of these differences . |
| 17 | He dialled out , and as he waited for it to be answered he knew he was using a line more private than anything set up between the Kremlin and the White House . |
| 18 | As he waited for it to be answered he drummed lightly on the desk top . |
| 19 | Yet for deaf people the isolation could well be more serious in integrated environments if such a policy change were to be effected which allowed this alignment . |
| 20 | Refrigeration was in its infancy , so that perishable goods just had to be sold which meant that prices were gradually reduced in the hour or so before closing time . |
| 21 | If they felt they could not follow the diet or did n't want to be committed I asked them to please return all the papers , and about seventy of them did just that . |
| 22 | So I phone Automec to be told they had n't heard of Their product causing any such problem and as silicone is a lubricant , it would not have any adverse effect on rubber . |
| 23 | And somehow she did n't need to be told they had arrived . |
| 24 | It remains to be told who played hoax , and why . |
| 25 | Clark was surprised to be told he had broken the course record by 26 seconds . |
| 26 | To be told he had an attitude problem was astonishing , ’ said Botham . |
| 27 | They had floated into a dream world of their own , and Lucy 's pulses were racing as she waited to be told he loved her . |
| 28 | It had to be established how such a system would work , and virtually all the present members had qualified by Institute examinations for practical and theoretical experience , and were unlikely to allow those to be admitted who had not passed these examinations . |
| 29 | Carson had only just put the phone down after trying to get Alison 's number from Enquiries , but as he 'd waited for his call to be taken he 'd thought of her , perhaps contemptuous of his anxiety and annoyed by his persistence , and he 'd hung up without even making his request . |
| 30 | The House of Lords found that the legislation only allowed terms to be attached which related to the use of the site and not to the types of contract the site owner could make with the caravan owners . |